Livestream has deployed AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 server with SeaMicro Freedom Fabric Storage as the core platform to provide its live video and collaboration services. The company selected the microserver technology for high-performance computing power it needs for live video transcoding, according to AMD.

The deployment doubled the computing density Livestream had before and reduced its IT infrastructure’s power consumption. The additional resources provide Livestream expansion capacity.

Overall analysis by Livestream showed that the SeaMicro SM15000 server provided significant energy savings compared to solutions from the other leading server vendors. The results were verified by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), according to a statement issued by AMD.

Livestream received a grant from NYSERDA that covered a significant portion of the server purchase price. The grant was based on an audited proposal and on-site inspection to verify the power savings.

“Our data center has plenty of rack space, but we just could not fill them with servers because we could not get enough power to the racks,” Thomas Bonnin, chief architect at Livestream, said. “The SeaMicro SM15000 server ... allowed us to double our computing capacity while at the same time retiring our energy-inefficient servers.”

Livestream is in a period of rapid growth, so it is building out an architecture that can scale to support hundreds of millions of people. The SeaMicro platform was tested to be used for front end web applications, backend application programming interfaces, workflow systems and streaming infrastructure.

AMD bought SeaMicro for US$334m in March 2012.